Govern AI as it scales
Define ownership, access, human oversight, risk thresholds, and audit-ready operating controls.
Agentic AI governance · Decision intelligence · Portfolio operating systems · Enterprise transformation
I build the operating layer that turns AI ambition into governed execution.
Enterprise AI transformation leader with 15+ years connecting strategy, product operations, governance, adoption, and executive decision-making across Intuit, Oracle, Intel, Visa, and Wells Fargo.
Close the decision loop
Turn portfolio signals into clear tradeoffs, executive choices, and accountable follow-through.
Scale adoption responsibly
Help teams adopt AI-native workflows with measurable value, confidence, and durable behavior change.
Selected experience
Transformation at enterprise scale.
Across AI adoption, cloud platforms, product operations, and digital transformation, the through line is the same: build clarity, alignment, and durable execution.
Enterprise Program Manager · AI Enablement & Adoption
Scaling AI-enabled portfolio planning into a new way of working.
Leading enterprise adoption of an AI-enabled planning platform across Product, Engineering, TPM, and Business Operations.
- Driving change management, stakeholder engagement, and training across four teams and 500+ users.
- Strengthening portfolio governance through scalable reporting, feedback, and issue-resolution processes.
- Operationalizing an annual Operations roadmap with 1000+ initiatives kept current, actionable, and appropriately sequenced.
Senior Principal Program Manager
Creating one execution system across 40+ engineering organizations.
Led enterprise program governance, release readiness, and cloud-native and microservices modernization initiatives supporting Oracle Fusion Applications across 40+ global engineering organizations.
- Established governance frameworks, executive reporting structures, and operating cadences that cut decision/reporting cycle time by 50%.
- Accelerated standardized delivery processes by driving enterprise planning tool adoption, reducing inception-to-first-launch timelines 33-50%.
- Supported regulated cloud delivery, cloud-native and microservices transformation, FedRAMP readiness, regional rollout governance, and operational modernization across complex SaaS ecosystems.
Senior NPI Program Manager
Building a PMO for a fast-moving organization from the ground up.
Created the governance, tooling, reporting, and operating cadences needed to support rapid organizational growth.
- Led programs across Product, Engineering, UX, Marketing, and Executive Leadership.
- Connected roadmap planning and prioritization to budget alignment.
- Standardized workflows to improve operational efficiency and execution predictability.
Senior Marketing Program Manager
Modernizing global digital delivery across product, engineering, and marketing.
Led enterprise digital programs and introduced scalable delivery frameworks for high-visibility global initiatives.
- Lifted engagement 40% by simplifying a low-performing campaign landing strategy later adopted across global markets.
- Delivered Intel's first global product catalog platform.
- Directed strategy and execution for Intel's 2018 Winter Olympics digital activation.
Earlier transformation and program leadership includes Wells Fargo, Visa, Razorfish, MRM, McCann Worldgroup, Publicis, and Scient.
Forward-looking prototype suite
AI Portfolio Operating System.
Five focused demos for the agentic enterprise: govern autonomous work, prioritize demand, detect delivery risk, synthesize executive decisions, and scale adoption with human oversight built in.
Flagship Prototype
Agentic AI Governance & Portfolio Control Tower
A 2026-ready control layer for managing AI agents as governed portfolio assets. Demonstrates agent inventory, access boundaries, value, cost, risk, oversight, audit signals, and scale decisions in one operating view.
Agent identity registry
Inventory of AI agents by owner, workflow, source systems, task scope, autonomy level, and risk posture
Continuous controls
Permissions, cost thresholds, memory retention, approval gates, observability, and escalation paths
Risk and compliance signals
Flags missing owners, broad permissions, weak oversight, policy exceptions, and spend anomalies
Executive decision layer
Turns agent signals into tradeoffs, scale recommendations, funding choices, and action timing
Portfolio value lens
Connects agent adoption to capacity savings, risk reduction, workflow maturity, and readiness to scale
Prototype Data
Predictive Dependency & Release Governance Tracker
Prototype showing how AI-assisted delivery teams can surface dependency drift, release-gate exposure, owner gaps, and launch-readiness risk before they become executive escalations.
Dependency intelligence
Shows upstream and downstream teams, risk level, owner, unblock path, and decision timing
Release gate timeline
Tracks design freeze, integration, security review, launch readiness, and executive go/no-go
Predictive escalation view
Highlights blocked dependencies, aging risks, missing owners, confidence shifts, and decision deadlines
Governance summary
Summarizes release confidence, open controls, cross-team blockers, and next actions
01
AI Demand Triage Scorer
Portfolio intake scored by value, risk, capacity, confidence, and strategic fit
02
Decision Brief Generator
Work signals converted into executive-ready narratives, tradeoffs, and asks
03
Adoption Signal Tracker
Behavior signals, readiness risk, and intervention planning by business unit
Where I create leverage
The systems behind strong execution.
I operate where strategy, technology, people, and decisions have to become one coherent system.
Enterprise transformation
Turn broad strategic direction into sequenced portfolios, operating models, and measurable delivery across 1000+ initiatives.
- Portfolio prioritization
- Cloud modernization
- Cross-org delivery
AI adoption systems
Move AI from tool rollout to governed, measurable behavior change.
Portfolio governance
Design lightweight decision systems for risk, dependencies, tradeoffs, and accountability.
Executive alignment
Give leaders a shared view of priorities, progress, and the decisions that matter now.
“The work is not adding process. It is creating enough clarity that the organization can move.”
Case study callout
FedRAMP and compliance governance across complex cloud delivery.
At Oracle, I supported regulated cloud delivery and FedRAMP readiness by turning security, engineering, SaaS operations, audit, and executive requirements into an accountable governance rhythm.
Control evidence readiness
Release gate governance
Cross-team ownership clarity
Executive risk visibility
Recognition & reputation
What leaders say.
Credibility built through calm leadership, structured execution, and measurable delivery in high-pressure environments.
Alison brings calm, reason, and structure to complex, high-pressure programs. She has exceptional collaboration and relationship-building skills, with the ability to align teams, resolve conflict, and move challenging projects forward. Her program management and implementation expertise are second to none.
Alison led implementation for a complex program with more than 200 tactical deliverables, bringing strong ideas, execution discipline, and a drive for excellence. She adds immense value to large-scale project and implementation efforts.
Selected recognition
High-visibility work, recognized.
Global Campaign Integration
Integrated content into global campaign frameworks, increasing visibility and engagement.
Olympic Winter Games Activation
Led digital marketing strategy for Intel's first activation at the Olympic Winter Games.
Campaign Innovation
Recognized for campaign innovation that brought product stories to new audience segments.
Customer Journey Strategy
Directed the .com strategy that simplified the PC innovation customer journey.
Leadership approach
Clarity is a growth strategy.
I am most useful when the goal is ambitious, the environment is complex, and progress depends on many teams moving together.
My role is to make the work legible: clarify the outcome, surface the real dependencies, create decision mechanisms, and build an operating rhythm people can trust. Then I lead the change required to make the new system stick.
01Frame the outcome
02Expose the system
03Align decisions
04Enable adoption
Search focus
What I’m hired to do.
I’m brought into complex environments where strategy is clear but execution needs structure—aligning leaders, clarifying priorities, operationalizing change, and creating decision rhythms that move work forward.
Relevant roles
Senior Program Manager · Principal Program Manager · Senior Principal Program Manager · Technical Program Manager · AI Program Manager · Enterprise Transformation Lead · PMO Director · Portfolio Operations · Product Operations · Strategy & Operations · Business Operations · Chief of Staff · NPI Operations
Core expertise
AI Strategy · AI Adoption · AI Enablement · Generative AI · AI-Enabled Workflows · Dragonboat · Jira · GitHub · Confluence · Portfolio Planning · Roadmapping · OKRs · Operating Model Transformation · PMO Leadership · Executive Reporting · Agile · Scrum · SAFe · Kanban · Cloud Transformation · SaaS Platforms · Change Management · Release Governance · Risk Management · FedRAMP Readiness
Where I create value
I work at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Business Operations, and executive leadership—translating strategy into roadmaps, operating models, adoption plans, governance systems, and measurable execution.
Tools & methodologies
- Tools
- Dragonboat, Jira, GitHub, Confluence, Smartsheet, Asana, BI dashboards
- AI tools
- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Dragonboat Agentic AI
- Program methods
- Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, release management, change management
- Planning & governance
- Portfolio planning, roadmapping, OKRs, executive reporting, governance frameworks
- Execution & risk
- RAID, dependency management, risk management, decision frameworks, stakeholder alignment
Let's talk
Building what comes next?
I’m interested in senior-level opportunities across AI Strategy & Operations, Enterprise Transformation, Technical Program Management, PMO Leadership, Product Operations, Portfolio Operations, Strategy & Operations, and Chief of Staff roles—particularly in AI, SaaS, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare technology, and enterprise software.